You know you've touched a lot of lives when your 800th birthday is celebrated around the world. Sufi poet Mevlana Jellaluddin--best known as Rumi--is beloved by people of many faiths for his ecstatic, almost infatuated devotion to God. His eloquent longing seems to get at the very heart of love. Born September 30, 1207, the spiritual poet's global popularity has inspired the United Nations agency UNESCO to deem 2007 "The Year of Rumi."

For his birthday we honor the poet with this lush, uplifting meditation set to soothing music. Click below and enjoy.

"Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along"
"We are born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?"
"Let what you love be what you do."
"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there."
"Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love."
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